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Nicaragua Adult Mission Trip
Desired Trip Date: ______
Description of this trip
We are looking for those who have a heart for missions and feel they are being called to help minister to the people in Nicaragua.
The Lord has given Fields of Abundance Mission a heart for Nicaragua, and recently, He has opened up some more opportunities for us to assist in the spread of the Gospel there. Currently we are teaming up with local Pastors and churches in Nicaragua, as well as planting new churches.
Pre-Trip Meetings
During the next few months until we leave, we will hold 6 training meetings and we feel that it is extremely important that you attend them.
Because of the team building, the cultural and the language training that will take place in these meetings, we ask that you seriously consider your commitment to these meetings before signing up for this trip. If you have a conflict with the dates or times, please talk to us. (Dates to be determined or as listed on specific trip information sheet)
Raising the funds to afford the trip
Fields of Abundance does not organize fundraising activities for adult missions’ trips. Therefore, you are responsible for the cost of this trip. We will assist you in ideas and encourage you to send letters to family or friends asking them to prayerfully consider supporting you through prayer and/or financial contributions. While we believe it is okay to receive support from friends who are church members, we discourage blanket solicitation.
Should you apply for this trip?
Attached is an application to participate in this Missions Trip. We want to know as much about you as we can. Please understand we will only be able to take a limited number of people, so please get us your completed application as soon as possible. Our greatest interest is to serve the Lord’s objectives for this trip.
Application
If it is your intention to apply for this trip, please understand that your application is due by the date set forth on the specific trip information sheet with a deposit of $100.00 made out to Fields of Abundance Mission (or FOAM).
The cost of the trip is $1700 +/- and will include your flight, transportation in Nicaragua, food and lodging.
If you have any questions, concerns, or need more details please contact Doug or Betty McRoberts at Fields of Abundance Mission, we would love to sit down with you and answer any questions you may have.
Blessings, Doug and Betty McRoberts
Email: or
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Office Phone: 267-926-3026
Doug’s Cell: 215-852-3303
Betty’s Cell: 267-718-8461
Fields Of Abundance Mission
PO Box 98
Pipersville, PA 18947
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Nicaragua Mission On-Line Application
(CONFIDENTIAL)
Today’s Date: Click here to enter a date.
Please indicate which trip you are applying for:
PLEASE ENTER YOUR LEGAL NAME:
Name: First Name, Middle Name, Last Name
Address: Street Address
City: State: Zip:
Phone Numbers: Home Cell
Email Addresses: Home Work/School
If in School/College, Name of School Year
Date of Birth: Place of Birth:
Social Security Number (optional): Driver License #: State:
PASSPORT INFORMATION : Please copy the information directly from your passport and submit a copy of it, with your application.
Your name exactly as it appears on your passport
Last Name, First Name, Full Middle Name
US Passport # Place of issue: Expiration Date:
If you don’t have a passport it’s easy to apply, but you must allow 6-8 weeks to receive it. For more information go to this website: http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html This site will give you locations to apply. Many local Post Offices provide Passport services.
Name person to be notified in case of accident or emergency:
Name: Relationship:
Cell Phone: Home Phone: Work Phone:
Address: Street Address
City: State: Zip:
MARITAL STATUS:
Single Engaged Married Divorced Widowed
If engaged, when do you expect to marry?
Please list your children and/or dependents:
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Current/Most Recent Employer: Phone Number:
Dates employed from : to
Address: Street Address
City: State: Zip:
Type of work: Title:
If currently employed, can we send a reference form to your employer? Yes No
To whom should the reference form be addressed?
Do you have a State Child Abuse History Clearance? Yes No
If yes, please submit a copy with this application. If no, please complete one with your home state.
The Link for the PA certification is: PA.us/findaform/childabusehistoryclearance
SPECIAL SKILLS: Check any skills you have below.
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Administrative
Agriculture
Art work
Athletic/Coaching
Carpentry
Computer (specify)
Cooking
Electrical
Engineering
Journalism
Language (specify) _
Landscaping
Mechanical
Medical (specify)
Musical (specify)
Photography
Plumbing
Radio / TV / Film
Sales
Secretarial
Teacher
Other (Specify)
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HEALTH
A. Do you have any physical condition which may limit your ability to keep up with the group and to perform the ministry described on the info sheet? Yes No (If Yes, Please explain)
B. Have you ever been treated for a nervous, mental or emotional disorder? Yes No If so, what was the nature of the disorder (this is confidential)
C. Have you ever been treated for Asthma? Yes No What age? What medicine did you take? Are you currently being treated for Asthma? Yes No
D. Please Describe Your General Health: (this is confidential)
E. Are you presently on medication prescribed by a physician? Yes No If so, what medication(s)?
F. Do you frequently experience depression, moodiness or negativism? Yes No
G. List any other chronic disease or allergies you have.
H. Are you presently under a doctor’s care for this condition? Yes No
I. Please list any special dietary restrictions.
REFERENCES: Please submit the names and complete addresses of Two people who will serve as references for you. They may be contacted soon after we receive your application, so please encourage them to respond promptly when contacted, since team selection will occur soon.
Do not include relatives or Boyfriend / Girlfriend
1. PASTOR or CURRENT SPIRITUAL LEADER: (i.e. Bible study or home fellowship leader)
Name: Phone Number: Length of acquaintance
Address: Street Address
City: State: Zip: Email:
2. BUSINESS ASSOCIATE, TEACHER, PROFESSOR, and/or FRIEND
Name: Phone Number: Length of acquaintance
Address: Street Address
City: State: Zip: Email:
TRAVEL HISTORY
Have you traveled or lived in any foreign country? Yes No If yes, was this a missions program or a tourist trip? If yes, please list each country and approximate length of time for each:
Country / Approximate Length of TimeCHURCH, SPIRITUAL and PERSONAL BACKGROUND
When did you become a Christian?
What Church do you attend?
How long have you attended?
Have you been baptized? Yes No If so, where? When?
What ministries are you involved with at your church?
Do you serve in any volunteer/leadership role outside the church?
What do you think your spiritual gifts are?
What do you see as your strongest character quality and why?
What do you see as your weakest character quality and why?
BRIEFLY STATE YOUR BELIEFS ON THE FOLLOWING:
This is not a test of your Bible knowledge, nor are your answers the basis for your selection to be part of the team, but we do want to know what you believe regarding some key, sometimes controversial doctrines.
1. Is Jesus God? Yes No Why is that important?
2. How is someone saved and how can we be sure we are saved?
3. What is the significance of water baptism?
4. What is the significance of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit?
5. Briefly describe your personal beliefs about the return of Jesus Christ.
MISSIONS / MINISTRY HISTORY
Have you ever been on a mission trip with Fields of Abundance Mission or another group? Yes No
If yes, please list the place, organization, leader’s name and telephone number for each.
Place / Organization / Leader’s Name / Phone NumberDo you consider yourself a team player? Yes No Maybe
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Please answer all 6 of the following questions in a total of approx. 300 words
1. Briefly describe your conversion experience (pre-Christ, conversion, and present relationship)
2. Explain any other Christian service you have rendered and your experience in personal and group evangelism, including results. Also, list ministries in which you have held a leadership position.
3. State your reasons for believing God is leading you to participate in Fields of Abundance Mission.
4. In addition to the biography of your Christian experience, please write your own brief personal biographical experience. Please specify: a.) your relationship to each of your parents; b.) your relationship to your brothers and sisters; c.) any significant experiences in your life that have contributed to the person you are today; and d.) how you feel these experiences will affect your ministry with Fields of Abundance Missions. If you are married and / or have children, please explain your relationship with your spouse and your children.
5. What religious books and Christian periodicals have influenced you most?
6. List anything else we should know about you or your situation.
VERIFICATION and RELEASE
Please read carefully the following statements. If you are in agreement, sign, date and return your application with completed registration, designated deposit and photocopy of the 1st two pages of your passport. (if no passport, your driver’s license)
I declare by my signature below that, to the best of my knowledge, all of the information in this application is true and complete. I authorize you to make such inquiries into my personal, employment, financial and medical history or other related matters as may be necessary to arrive at an acceptance decision.
I hereby release employers, schools or persons from all liability in responding truthfully to these inquiries.
I have checked the dates of the mission training meetings and I understand that I am expected to attend all the meetings. If I can’t attend a meeting due to unforeseen circumstances, I will work with the Team Leaders and be sure to follow up on the material I have missed. I do understand that if I miss two or more meetings, I may have to reconsider my call to go on the Mission trip; at that time I will meet with the team leaders to discuss my status.
I also understand that it is my responsibility to make sure I have my tetanus vaccine and Hepatitis A & B Vaccines up to date before I leave for Nicaragua.
Tetanus Vaccine: Yes No Date
Hepatitis A Vaccine: (#1 of 2) Yes No Date
Hepatitis A Vaccine: (#2 of 2) Yes No Date
Hepatitis B Vaccine: (#1 of 3) Yes No Date
Hepatitis B Vaccine: (#2 of 3) Yes No Date
Hepatitis B Vaccine: (#3 of 3) Yes No Date
I am aware that I’m responsible to raise any financial support necessary to fund my personal ministry.
I understand that, should I not be selected for this trip, my deposit of $100 will be refunded in full.
Date:Click here to enter a date. Applicant’s Signature Initials:
Please Note: By entering your name and initials, and emailing it to us, you electronically approve this application. If you prefer, you can print it out, sign it and return it to us personally or scan and email it back to us.
What We Believe
Matthew 25: 35-40 “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in. I needed clothes and you clothed me. I was sick and you looked after me. I was in prison and you came to visit me. Then the righteous will answer him. ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”
Matthew 28:19-20 “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Statement Of Faith:
• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
• We believe that there is one God, and that He is eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His vicarious death on the Cross, was bodily resurrected by the power of the Holy Spirit, ascended back to the right hand of God the Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us. After Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the Gospel to the entire world, an obligation shared by all believers today.
• We believe that, for the salvation of the lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results in regeneration by the Holy Spirit and that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save; that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord.
• We believe in the personal, visible return of Christ to earth and the establishment of His Kingdom; in the resurrection of the body, the final judgment and eternal blessing of the righteous and endless suffering of the wicked.